nothing lasts forever

i promise i don't bite (← lying) ☆ chronic queue user ☆ multifandom ☆ they/them ☆ somewhere on the aroace spectrum ☆ me/cfs

[hollanoveau]

they watched all that shit happen and finally went “you are all like little babies. watch this.”

[bisexualchaosdemon]

I can just imagine Troy laying in bed one night and being like, "Oh, I almost died."

Harris would chuckle a little like, "Yeah, I know, I was there. Did you just realise this now?"

"No, not that," Troy would correct him. "Before we got together, I'd heard rumours about Shane being gay and I thought Ilya was just his friend still, so I almost asked Ilya for his number."

"Oh, shit. Yeah, you would have been super dead, dude, damn."

[m00nbig]

It's reassuring to know that however bad of a time I'm having, I'm never going to be having as bad a time as Troy Barrett did that one fortnight in November 2020.

His boyfriend of two years dumps him, keeping in mind he is DEEPLY in the closet and doesn't think he's ever going to be able to find anyone else who he'd be able to make a relationship work because of that + his schedule. Three days later said ex-bf announces he's ENGAGED and has apparently been with his fiancé for months (i think...?) so yeah apparently he was being cheated on the whole time while he was busy being madly in love! Also said exbf apparently was okay with being out if it was for someone else, just not Troy!

Then, TWO DAYS LATER, reports start coming out that his best friend of his entire career is a serial rapist, and over the next two days continue to come out and he realises that oh, that's actually completely in character and has to grapple with the fact that that's the kind of person he was best friends with. At that point, he calls Dallas out, yk, tries to do the right thing, and as a result is traded to the worst team in the entire league only a few days later.

Mind you he gets to that new team and they all hate him because, yk, best friends with no. 1 bigot and rapist Dallas Kent, and he can't even really blame them for it cause like... They're right. Also! Can't even grieve said relationship or complain about being cheated on because he would have to out himself to do it! So they all thought he was in a horrible mood just because he was a prick and hated their team not because he just got dumped!

It's like karma for being Dallas' side kick all those years, he had to go through hell first to access his redemption arc.

[hr-rep]

Ilya @ Troy

[chubby-cry-baby]

shane x ilya and the centaurs!!!

they all go to the arcade for 'bonding' and shane and ilya are SCARY competitive and try to get the highest points on everything. At some point wyatt says "i thought they were only competitive on ice..."

harris organizes a centaurs charity calendar and shane and ilya are february because valentines day (awww)

the team will always leave a spot for the other when standing around at practice or sitting at a restaurant - they know shane and ilya want to be beside eachother. warning: DO NOT SEPARATE

theres multiple wedding celebration dinners they get invited to in the summer and there is a lot of "so you're why we never saw roz at any team events hmmm" (harris' family loves shane!!!!!)

sometimes they'll do team rozanov vs team team hollander at practice - it's truly cemented that shane is actually the best player ever of all time

shane and ilya finally go to a Bood BBQ

shane cleans up at poker - he has no tells and he loves winning

harris comes to take content when they’re practicing and ilya teases him “you just want to see your boyfriend” and they look over to see shane and troy doing elaborate passes and harris teases back, “you’re staring more than me”

gayest team in the league

rookies want to play with hollander and rozanov soooo bad (having a centaurs induced sexuality crisis becomes a thing there's a lot of "hey um hollander/rozanov/barrett can i ask you a question")

ilya regular flirts with shane infront of everyone they don't even bat an eyelash but when shane flirts with ilya everyones starts ribbing him like 'ooooh rozy'

“okay tell us who made the first move” “me” “i did” - and a massive argument ensues

“FINALLY SOMEONE TO TRANSLATE WHATEVER ROZ SAYS IN RUSSIAN” “you don’t want to know what he says in russian”

shane’s insane hockey iq tells each of them what they’re doing wrong & their plays improve within weeks (“your angle is wrong” “if you go faster you might actually score”) - he can’t help though he can only tell you what’s wrong

harris organizes a centaurs FAQ video; “twitter is dying to know ‘ilya rozanov can you fight?!?’” “who’s asking” “it trends everytime shane posts a sponsorship or scores a goal or does an interview or gets papped or-” “yes i will fight anyone”

shane and ilya can speak with their eyes and it gets spooky; the centaurs immediately make a game to see who has the best telepathy with their captain

shane freaks out when they get turbulence and ilya always jokes, “we’re already married what would you do this time”

[hilarioushilarity]

Still laughing about how close Troy Barrett came to death

Role Model, Chp. 5

[parcai]

sometimes i think about how troy is so much like shane. the same obsessiveness. hockey as the axis his whole life turns on, the food rituals, the precision of it & his health (salmon is a treat for him...). the same social unawareness, the awkwardness, the anxiety, the unblinking seriousness. the way he moves through the world slightly out of sync, like he’s still learning rules everyone else already knows. he’s like shane, just slightly to the left. shane, but if he were drowning. shane, but if he had all the same rocks in his pockets that ilya carried for years. the family or lack thereof, the secrecy, the loneliness, & the quiet, constant self-erasure.

so fucking of course it’s ilya who sees it immediately. he sees shane in him, and he sees himself, too—the version of himself that existed before shane loved him. and loving troy, helping him, feels almost like having a piece of hollander there. something steady and familiar in his hands, even when shane is weeks and cities away (and ilya is so secretly miserable he could scream). of fucking course ilya is the one who reaches for him first, clings to him really, & refuses to let him drown, when no one else sees it or is brave enough to help him

ilya and shane invented love so completely it spills out of them and saves other people. god whatever

[sabertoothwalrus]

office tradition

[your-void-senpai]

Love how Ilya just adopts Troy. Hey lonely little gayboy with a bad father I clocked you from a mile away do you need a wingman

[shillanov]

ilya didn’t HAVE to skate up to the center line just to do his warmup lunges but he did because he was waiting for his boy to come over and talk to him. he had just confessed his love on the phone and had been waiting all week to come back to his little freckled lover. real romeo and juliet type shit

[oknotgood]

something something Ilya's wounds are so deep and so intrinsic to the core of his identity and his fears are so all encompassing like can he be loved can he be saved but what heals those wounds is so mundane. it's just hundreds of home cooked meals and texting to let him know he landed safe and "don't forget to take your pills" and loads of laundry and falling asleep together and waking up together. the little, everyday things are lifechanging. the monotony is miraculous. the transcendant, soul-healing, unconditional love is stored in the boring.

[semiconductiveshanehollander]

i do think ilya will need reading glasses when he’s older and i do think he’ll fight it like hell until shane walks in on him reading a recipe with his square wire framed glasses but before he can rush to take them off he realizes just how well he can see shane now. realizes how he can see the more faint freckles again that he hadn’t even noticed he’d been missing or the small wrinkles that have formed on the edges of his eyes. and then yeah he’d suck his dick about it.

[my-2nd-account]

Ilya in TLG is like: I'm the worst captain I'm a shitty friend I'm a terrible teammate what good am I even doing

Meanwhile Troy: ILYAAAAAA 💗🩷🌸 OMG ILYA WITH PUPPIES 🩷💐🌸 OMG ILYA AND THE KIDS IN THE HOSPITAL 🩷🩷 I'M ILYA ROZANOV'S NUMBER 1 FAN 💕 OMG ILYA PLAYING MARIO KART 💗💘 OMG ILYA BEST CAPTAIN BESTEST BEST FRIEND 💘💗💕🩷 OMG ILYA WEARING A SANTA HAT 🌸🌺 OMG ILYA 💗🩷 ILYAAAA 💐💗🩷🩷💘💞

And don't even get me started on Luca Haas who I'm 110% sure writes Ilya Rozanov x reader fanfics and draws Ilya Rozanov nsfw fanart on ao3

[emmikay]

[deja-b00]

it’s their first season playing together and a video goes around of ilya calling shane sweetheart on the ice. it sparks a dumb controversy where people are calling them unprofessional and speculating that their teammates are uncomfortable having a couple on the team.

cut to their next game where the centaurs have assigned each of their players their own unhinged pet name. bood is big daddy. hayes: snookums. troy is doll face. luca is obviously baby boy.

when asked about it in a press conference, coach weibe is just like, "every player in hockey gets a nickname or two. the centaurs are just a little more creative than most teams. why, is it making people uncomfortable?"

[bagel-with-creamcheese]

Ilya’s an asshole? Ilya “stayed at a children’s hospital so much later than his teammates he had to get a cab home” Rozanov? Ilya “he’d probably buy them all Ferraris” Rozanov? Ilya “there will be a trust set up for my niece” Rozanov? Ilya “didn’t retaliate when his brother said horrible things to him including a gay slur but attacked him when he dared insult Svetlana” Rozanov? Ilya “played in the pool with his teammates kids” Rozanov? Ilya “delayed practice 15 minutes so the team could play with a puppy” Rozanov? Ilya “the only nhl member outside of Scott’s friends to support him at Scott hunter night after his very public coming out” Rozanov? Ilya “collecting queer hockey players so his camp can be super inclusive” Rozanov? Ilya “trying to create a safe space” Rozanov? Mmmm I don’t think so

[someonecomegettheirchild]

Ilya showing up at the kingfisher every time he’s in New York: